The Queen of Wonderland

Most of what I have written in the introduction to my yet unpublished book has to do with what is wrong with the theories produced by modern feel-good-psychology on the problem of self-harming behaviour. Anyone who has anything to do with the problem of self-harm can’t help becoming involved in this Mad Tea Party because the psychological authority is acting like the Mad Hatter with its psychobabbling in silly riddles about the nature of anorexia nervosa.

In her adventure into the Wonderland realm, Alice has become quite frustrated with the proceedings at the Mad Tea Party and gets up and leaves. She doesn’t have a clue that what is actually going on in her dream-like adventure is purely symbolic. This situation got carried over into her real-life experience in therapy, because her therapist does not have any more of an understanding about the nature of her malady than she does. Consequently, like the Mad Hatter, her therapist can only repeat   in his silly style of psychobabble   what Alice already told him in plain language.

It must be understood that Alice’s anorectic adventures do not represent the conscious experience of her personality, but the dream adventures of her dream-personality or soul.